gian_99
This was on TV one night I wasn't feeling sleepy and I started watching it out of curiosity (I had never heard of the movie). Think about it as a cross between Amelie and Indiana Jones. The movie is fast paced and funny... I suspect I might have enjoyed it more if I could have watched it in French (and understood French). The CG scenes with the mummies were not too credible, or maybe starting to show their age, but that's not so important in this kind of movie. Good.
Claudio Carvalho
In 1911, in Paris, the bold journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) is assigned by her editor to travel to Peru to write about the Incas, but she goes to Egypt instead to seek out the mummy of a doctor of Ramses II to bring him to Paris. Adèle has an agreement with Professor Marie-Joseph Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian) that has the ability of bringing the dead back to life to resurrect the doctor to heel her twin sister Agathe Blanc-Sec (Laure de Clermont), who has been catatonic and paraplegic for five years due to an accident caused by Adèle. However, Professor Espérandieu is arrested in prison and sentenced to death after bringing to life a pterodactyl from an ancient egg in Louvre that caused the death of three persons. Now the last hope of Agathe is that Adèle saves Professor Espérandieu from the guillotine."Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec" is a highly entertaining and funny adventure by Luc Besson. Last week, I was zapping the television and I saw the last part of the adventure of Adèle Blanc- Sec. Today I have just watched this movie on DVD with my family and we really enjoyed the story. The weird and bizarre characters slightly recall the surrealism of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet in "Delicatessen and "La Cité des Enfants Perdus". My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "As Múmias do Faraó"("The Mummies of the Pharaoh")
maical
Yes I rate this movie as awful, as it does not add anything to cinema in general, other than to discredit its director, who has otherwise made good pictures. The story is relatively complicated for a family/children movie as well as weak, to say the least. To cut a long story short this is about saving a sister by raising mummies, with the help of a Dino scientist (go figure). The poor attempt to add humor makes it even worse. Is the film saved by good acting? No. Where are the good French actors? Having said all those good things, it's 2010 and the CGI is mediocre with poor lighting effects. Sorry for the hate but this was such a waste of my time, I had to write about it. I cannot see anyone enjoying this, kids or adults. But hey it seems some people enjoyed it!
nickrogers1969
I love the Adèle Blanc-Sec comic books so I looked forward to watching this. The film is quite faithful to the plot of the comics and the characters in the movie are extraordinarily alike their drawn equivalents. But the similarity stops there. The mysterious atmosphere of the comic books are sadly replaced by very broad humor thus making the a children's movie out of the adult comics.I was also disappointed by the actress in the lead role as she was far too young healthy and beautiful to play the strange Adèle of the comic series. The CGI effects didn't help and it was too brightly filmed. It was tiresome with all the swooping camera views. The slow bullet through the air has been done a million times before. The director did not seem to trust the source. This could have been a cool, strange and bloody version of the comic books but instead it was too childish for grown-ups. I am not surprised there is no sequel to this film.
AD
